A question for those in the know.
The back bed in my big greenhouse has been empty now for several years because of the reduced light. That bed has the apricot tree and a grape vine growing in and above it, and now that they are both fully grown they effectively block out a lot of the natural light from May to November.
The bed is 4 feet wide and the end away from the tree is about 8 feet long, and is completely empty.

So the question is, is there a food plant that would grow under those conditions?

What about brassica's that take up a lot of space and time elsewhere - broccoli and kale both do fine in shade and the heat in the greenhouse will give you the sweetest leaves. They're shallow rooted so won't affect the trees.

You'd need some sort of rotation of course.

Or maybe perennial broccoli - that would last you about 5 years.

Maggie

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No it's not heated Weedo, in fact the vents are wide open all winter, to start with to give the apricot the necessary chill hours and then to stop it flowering before the bees are about.

I like your idea of brassicas GA, unfortunately I've just planted out several Romanesco in the tunnel as one of those would have been handy to test your theory. I've also been looking at Nine Star Perennial, but it's probably too late for this year, unless I can get some seed fairly immediately.
The other requirement I forgot to mention is the need to be able to pick the apricots, so small plants might get stepped upon.

I think after being on this forum for umpteen years Flo, I'm well used to being wound up.
Boring here too, rain is forecast to last pretty much all day, but not as boring as Thursday when we are due a planned all day power outage.

Just ordered a packet of Nine Star Perennial broccoli, along with a couple of new to me varieties of drying beans